Rock Band.com

[GameMaster439]

Y'know, it could be worse. RockBand.com could end up looking like the webiste of this other music game.

Nice one there. I always checked their forums to see how active it was. Answer: Not very at all.

[Nekketsu]

The photo creator was actually the main reason I signed up here instead of just lurking. People who saved their old pictures onto their profile should still have them in their photo collection here. I still have mine saved here at least. Too bad the app exploded permanently shortly before I finalized the look of my RB2 band.
Having it return was one of my hopes when RB3 came out, but alas. Oh well.

If only the Xbox360 let you take in-game screenshots..

[FujiSkunk]

Just now looked at HMXHenry's pics...

Here is a look at one of the Band Mates that I still have on my desk that has managed to survive 3 moves.

You know, it's the little touches that make those things so awesome, like how the guitar isn't plugged in and doesn't have a guitar strap.

[LoopyChew]

People who saved their old pictures onto their profile should still have them in their photo collection here.

But they are. At least mine are. I didn't save them and upload them; they were already there by default.

[Mr-TyK]

Wow, do I miss those features now that you all remind me.

I had just about as much fun with that as playing RB2. I never did get a chance to get all the merch I wanted. I did get a poster of "my band" but I misplaced some time ago. LoopyChew, thanks for pointing out the photos are still there! I found the one I had made in to the poster.
I really enjoyed my "Alter Ego" character and "my girls" in the band. My wife and I messed with making the perfect poster for hours with both our alter egos and characters to represent our two pups at the time. Great fun!
I wish I had gotten some bumper stickers as well

I had plans on getting bandmates for the young niece and nephew but the change happened before their birthday, so we got them RB3 and a keyboard instead.
Haven't thought about it in a long time.

Sorry it had to go.

[Bront20]

I just remember that when it changed everyone *****ed about it for a week. The biggest complaint was the default skull avatars. In RB2 era if you didn't have an avatar then you just didn't have an avatar.

The skulls also used to be bigger.

Use adblock and block the default user image. it makes life so much better.

[vexx0820]

The Merch Creator (which is, I believe, the technical name we had to differentiate it from the Photo Creator) definitely hat its moments. The idea of creating real world swag for your in game bands is still an idea that I love, and seeing people at events wearing shirts with their band names or posting pics of posters on their wall same as they would for real bands, that was definitely cool. But it was a bit costly and a bit impractical and a bit difficult to manage since it wasn't something we controlled directly. It had a good run and I'm glad that people remember it fondly.

We don't have much of that swag left in house, but this poster of Stephen & The Colberts that he signed as a thank you for releasing Charlene is a pretty good example of what the finished product looked like. We did a similar poster for an RB spot on the Today Show (I think they were called the Day Tones) with a bad ass looking Al Roker on drums, but sadly I fear it has been lost to the sands of time.

The Band Mates were actually run through a different service, but it ran alongside the Merch Creator and people generally think of them as being part of the same thing. They were definitely the ultimate in high end RB super fan merch, running around $75 a pop for real world mini sculptures of their in game avatars. Here is a look at one of the Band Mates that I still have on my desk that has managed to survive 3 moves.

There are still a few dozen Band Mates in the office, mostly on desks and hiding on shelves. We have some cool demo pieces as well, including 12" tall variants that stand watch by the front entrance, as well as a few frankensteined variants where bored artists have sculpted a pile of broken bodies into one monstrosity. Also, if you look closely in the RB Board Game video, you can see us using tiny 2" variants of the Band Mates that never made it into production.

Omigod ... this company would have almost $400 dollars more of my money for something like that for my RB3 group.

[LoopyChew]

Omigod ... this company would have almost $400 dollars more of my money for something like that for my RB3 group.

Considering we don't know how much of that goes back to Harmonix versus the model manufacturers, odds are it'd have significantly less than $400.